Job Description
The Role: Senior DevOps Engineer in the UK Government Sector
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to support the delivery of digital services.
This role will provide assistance and guidance for Delivery teams on processes and best practices, as well as researching new technologies to enable Delivery teams to be more effective.
Key Objectives:
* Implement efficient practices, processes, and technology to drive continuous service improvement and support product delivery through development and into Live.
* Improve system robustness, resilience, stability, and instrumentation.
* Proactively find ways to increase the pace of delivery teams by improving processes.
* Contribute to the community, providing technical leadership, coaching, and mentoring the team, promoting knowledge sharing and adoption of good practice.
Key Tasks:
* Built processes, policies, practices, tools, and technologies to improve operational efficiency in running a digital service or product.
* Undertake necessary configuration to support the delivery of specific digital services.
* Taken an active role in development and operations events, such as daily scrums, sprint planning, refinement etc., have deep technical knowledge, providing support to delivery teams and solving complex problems.
* Ensure ongoing knowledge share and transfer of knowledge to the business and other technical staff.
* Ensure all required activities are carried out, auditable, and documented in accordance with required standards, methods, and procedures.
The Successful Candidate:
* A senior DevOps engineer with significant and varied professional experience in either infrastructure or application development, typically gained over 3 years or more.
* You will be a practitioner in either infrastructure or development, with skills across wide-ranging technologies such as Windows/Linux operating systems, networking, programming/scripting languages, CI/CD, and cloud technologies.
* Demonstrate a practitioner-level understanding of automated testing tools and techniques.
* Working level skills in using infrastructure as code techniques.
* Working level skills in code-based automation (e.g. PowerShell, Bash, Ansible, Puppet).
* Awareness of containers and orchestration techniques.
* Show a positive approach to keeping the whole team's efforts focused on top priorities.
* Regularly monitor your own and team's work against milestones ensuring individual needs are considered when setting tasks.
* Work with stakeholders to set priorities, objectives, and timescales.
* Successfully deliver high-quality outcomes that meet customers' needs and give value for money.
Salary Range: £60,000 - £80,000 per annum, depending on experience.